{"id":89208,"date":"2025-02-05T06:36:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T12:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89208"},"modified":"2025-02-05T10:13:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T16:13:55","slug":"omigawd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89208","title":{"rendered":"OMIGAWD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So why is the DFL fighting <em>everything <\/em>so hard this year?<\/p>\n<p>As we&#8217;ve noted in the past, the DFL has <em>been in the minority before.&nbsp; <\/em>And they never reacted like they are today.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So while acknowledging all the usual caveats &#8211; anonymous sources, citing even more anonymous connections, etc &#8211; read this entire thread anyway:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Talked to a friend who has connections within the Democratic Party and he said the level of panic over Trump and Elon shutting down USAID is unlike anything he\u2019s ever seen.<br><br>By following the money DOGE has struck a killing blow to the heart of the Democrat deep state machine.<\/p>&mdash; Aesthetica (@Anc_Aesthetics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Anc_Aesthetics\/status\/1886579120512913445?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 4, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Presuming it&#8217;s true &#8211; it smacks of plausibility &#8211; then USAID is just a huge money-transfer machine, slapping altruistic facades onto over-the-top grifts to launder taxpayer money to the non-profit\/industrial complex.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking at the freneticism and bile of the attacks on DOGE, Musk and the effort to tame USAID, it looks like it&#8217;s struck a nerve.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; imagine what&#8217;ll happen if a Republican gets into the executive branch in Minnesota ever again?\u00a0\u00a0 Or gets enough power in the legislature to do some serious digging and publicizing?<\/p>\n<p>If a Minnesota version of DOGE &#8211; perhaps the &#8220;Office of Minnesota Internal Graft, Abuse and Waste Detection&#8221; &#8211; were to get free reign to find where Governors Dayton and Walz and their non-profit\/industrial complex handlers hid the bodies?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I suspect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexperiment.org\/minnesota-scandal-tracker-2024\/\">this list would get a <em>lot <\/em>bigger<\/a> -and that <em>that <\/em>is why the DFL is squawking so hard this time <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So why is the DFL fighting everything so hard this year? As we&#8217;ve noted in the past, the DFL has been in the minority before.&nbsp; And they never reacted like they are today.&nbsp; So while acknowledging all the usual caveats &#8211; anonymous sources, citing even more anonymous connections, etc &#8211; read this entire thread anyway: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,132,320,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-mn-legislature","category-mndfl","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89208"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89214,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89208\/revisions\/89214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}